Aquatic exercise is as effective as dry land training to blood pressure reduction in postmenopausal hypertensive women.

Background And Purpose: The evidence of the benefits from regular physical activity to hypertensives is based on dry land training studies. Therefore, the aim of this study is to compare the effect of aquatic exercise with dry land training on hypertensive women.

Methods: This is a randomized controlled study with 52 post-menopausal hypertensive women.